Let's Talk Health Care

Background

Who Chooses Health Insurance Products?

I do call-in radio shows every once in a while just to hear what people want to chew the fat about.  I did one about a month ago and got asked by three different people on three different calls why Harvard Pilgrim didn’t offer a certain kind of plan.  One called about a “two person plan” […]

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Welcome to the blog…

Health insurance is a complicated topic. I’m in the business, and I struggle at times to understand the benefits, the coverages, the rules and the jargon. And as health care changes, the health insurance business changes right along with it.

Harvard Pilgrim’s also gone through a significant amount of change over the past few years. […]

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What is the Harvard Pilgrim Foundation?

Most people may not even know that Harvard Pilgrim has a Foundation, much less what it does.  Well, among other things, it supports the Institute for Linguistic and Cultural Skills, which provides in- person cultural competency training and education to providers and employers around the region.  Most recently,  Institute Director Shani Dowd told me they were recently […]

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